Now with more accent colors! I added a script that allows you to chose any of the eight Solarized accent colors as your selected background color, anything from the standard blue to magenta or yellow.

This is a remix of the popular Numix theme by satya164, using the Solarized color scheme created by Ethan Shoonover. The Gnome Shell theme is satya164's Elegance Colors theme – the presets are included as .ini files and can be installed by placing them in ~/.config/elegance-colors/presets/ (big thanks to satya164 for suggesting that solution, wouldn't have thought of that possibility myself), and then selected in the Elegance Colors settings application.

This is my first attempt at theming, meaning there are probably quite a few things I've messed up or missed. Please don't hesitate to report any bugs or problems here. I hope to set up a Git repository in the future, but for now I'll just upload the theme and any updates here. Gnome Shell is what I'm running myself, so that's what is getting most of my attention – if there are bugs in other DEs, please let me know and I'll do my best to fix them.

CHANGELOG

2014-07-02- Updated theme to comply with the latest version of Numix, lots of small changes. Most notably the tabs now look like they should, and the window background in Gnome Files will now no longer change color when all tabs but one are closed.- Updated the preview image to reflect the changes (i.e. the new tabs).

2014-06-14- The zip file should be up to date now, apparently DA didn't play nice with the last upload for some reason.

2014-06-06- Simplified the accent colors script as per the suggestions of jensbob- Set the tint value of the elegance colors themes to 0- Increased the elegance colors themes font size to 10p- Re-added the proper names to the elegance colors theme files (don't know when those got lost, but apparently it happened and now it's fixed)- Updated the installation instructions

2014-05-06- Fixed the accent color script, should now work properly with the gtk2 theme as well.- Fixed the violet accent color.

2014-05-01- Changed a typo in the accent color script, the red should now be the actual Solarized red instead of some weird hue of magenta.

2014-04-28- Merged with the latest Numix theme, lots of small changes.- The blue accent colour is back, mainly for consistency reasons. That gray was to much of an eyesore in some applications, e.g. Gnome Tweak Tool.- Updated the preview image to reflect the new look.

2014-02-22

- Added a transparent Elegance Colors preset

- Fixed the xfwm4-theme (I hope)

- Updated the preview image

- Misc. fixes

2014-01-04

- Changed the "osd_base" and "osd_foreground" colors of the light theme, thereby making Gnome Terminal light instead of dark.

2014-01-03

- Added a light version of the GTK theme

- Updated the preview image

2013-12-29

- Fixed some weird button coloring in the dark Elegance Colors preset

- Made the Elegance Colors presets more square to better fit the look of the GTK theme

- Added "#Name" information to the .ini files to make them installable as Elegance Colors presets as per the suggestion of satya164

- Fixed the typo in gtk.css resulting in a "gtk-warning **: theme parsing error missing semicolon at end of color definition" error message.

- Tweaked the Gnome Shell theme settings slightly

- Removed the shadow from the Gnome Shell theme

- Removed the separate Gnome Shell Themes, seeing as Elegance Colors does not want to export themes at the moment (it is also easier to maintain just the .ini files). If anyone wants the old file, just post a comment and i'll provide a link.

Everything is kind of on a hiatus until Satya164 and the other developers work out all the kinks of the original Numix theme under 3.14. My guess is that the creator of Numix Blue implemented a workaround for the checkboxes, I saw something along those lines being discussed on the mailing list for the Numix github repository a while back. I could of course do something similar, like adopting the same fix, but I'd prefer to just wait until Numix properly supports GTK 3.14 and then implement all the new changes at once. There is still a long way to go until Numix and its derivatives support GTK 3.14 properly. For example, Gnome Tweak Tool still looks like this using Numix Blue: www.dropbox.com/s/vm8mmlahajp7…

Thank you for your explanation. Actually, it's aur.archlinux.org/packages/num…numix-themes-archblue-git from AUR. I cannot test the themes on gnome-tweak-tool because I don't have gnome-shell installed.

The dark theme is actually solarized light colors, I'm not sure what the light theme is, but it's not solarized. Do you have an actually dark theme that will make windows dark blue with light grey text?

Hm, that't indeed a problem – Gnome Tweak Tool does not work in XFCE for obvious reasons, but it seamed reasonable to assume that the option to use the alternate all-dark theme for GTK3 apps would be available somewhere in XFCEs settings. But alas – I installed an XFCE session on my system and toyed around with it a bit, but there does indeed not seam to be any way to do that.

The dark theme is still there, however. You could just remove "gtk.css" from the "gtk-3.0" directory in the "Numix Solarized" folder and then rename "gtk-dark.css" to "gtk.css" – that should result in an all-dark theme for GTK3 apps.

Hm, that's weird. It looks just fine in the bzr version of Pantheon Files that I'm able to install in Arch, which is my current dist. Then again, the bzr verison of Pantheon Files that I'm running does not have a properties dialog like that – yours looks more like the one in Gnome Files.

You're running Elementary Luna, right? If I'm not entirely mistaken that distro uses GTK 3.4 (?), which would make it incompatible with the original Numix theme and thereby all other themes derived from it. Satya164 provides an old version of Numix for GTK versions older than 3.6, but the older code is a real pain to work with compared to the current one when it comes to derivative themes like mine. However, I do have an old version of my theme lying around where the gtk-css looks fairly similar to the Numix one for older versions of GTK. Does this solve your problem? www.dropbox.com/s/o64v27xqm702…

Well, there's not much to do then. Or, well, there is in principle – I could of course maintain two versions of the theme, but I don't even have the time to maintain one version properly at the moment...

I guess you'll just have to wait until they finally release that beta of Elementary Freya, shouldn't be that long (hopefully).

Nice work! Unfortunately the updated shell script is missing in the latest version. I made my own edits and included the option for a custom color. The red color is still the magenta one, but it might be easier to maintain like this.

Hm, it's right there as far as I can see, one .sh file in each of the theme folders (e.g. "/Numix Solarized Light/accent_colors.sh"). On the other hand, I should probably be more clear about the location of the script in the ReadMe file...

But yes, that code is certainly superior to the one I managed to cobble together. I knew right from the start that it was kind of moronic to provide the same sed instructions once for each color, but I didn't have a proper idea of how to implement something more elegant. Now I do though – thanks for the suggestion! I'll get right to it.

At least it might have helped to improve your script. I think the only things one has to be cautious about when using a variable within the sed command is to use the double quotations and within those "\\" is not enough for a backslash but you need "\\\".

New version uploaded, thanks a bunch. Had to put the bash variable within single quotation marks in the sed script, otherwise it would replace the hex color code with the text "$hexcolor". Something like this, in other words:

Thanks! I played around with the idea of a darker version, but I didn't really like the way it turned out (or rather the way I could not make it look like I wanted due to limited skills). I might give it another shot once I have some more time to spare.

Easiest way to get them is to just download them using bazaar, by typing "bzr branch lp:elementaryicons" in the terminal efter navigating to the directory where you want them (typically "/usr/share/icons/")

That's great! I hadn't gotten around to making a proper mod for xfce yet, mostly since I don't run that DE myself and editing lots of PNGs takes more time than changing a few color codes. Guess you beat me to it!

Awesome work. I have a problem with the shell them though. I get some kind of shading underneath the top bar, which is... well... ugly. I haven't tried applying the shell them with elegance-colors yet.